Re: PROBLEM: no cpu MHz in /proc/cpuinfo on 2.6.25.4-rt6

From: Arjan van de Ven
Date: Tue Jun 10 2008 - 16:13:39 EST


On Tue, 10 Jun 2008 21:52:23 +0200
solsTiCe d'Hiver <solstice.dhiver@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> hi,
>
> i am running a 2.6.25.5-rt6 kernel.
> i know there is no such thing as 2.6.25.5-rt6 yet. so i have checked
> with a 2.6.25.4-rt6 kernel and i have the same issue.
>
> when i try to run jackd (0.109.2) i get that strange error:
> FATAL: cannot locate cpu MHz in /proc/cpuinfo
>
> and it appears that /proc/cpuinfo lack the line
> cpu MHz:


btw this is scary; the Mhz line in /proc/cpuinfo doesn't have much
meaning really, so applications using it and depending on it is a
rather big disaster ;-(

Does anyone know why jackd wants to use this?

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